[CQ-Contest] saving us from ourselves

[Alfred J. Frugoli (KE1FO)]

Computer interfaces are a godsend on 40 and 80.  That's my answer to save=
 us.  I never touch the split button on my rig anymore, I just hit the "-=
" key and enter the correct fequency (if it wasn't in the packet spot) an=
d let the computer do the rest. =20

I would love it if contest logging sofware authors would implement a way =
to inhibit trasmittion of at least computer generated stuff (cw and voice=
 messages) if the transmit VFO is set outside a bandplan designated by th=
e user.  And when you change to 40M or 80M and tune the vfo below the pre=
set frequencies, automatically turn the split on and set vfo B to a frequ=
ency in the phone band.  Seems like it would be possible.

73 de Al, KE1FO

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Sent: 3/8/2004 4:52:16 PM
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Subject: [CQ-Contest] saving us from ourselves

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> Greetings, fellow combatants....=20
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> If one had not had anything else to do this weekend (it WAS only a phon=
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> contest), it would have been instructional to have spent a bit of time=20
> listening in the 40 meter band and logging callsigns of stations callin=
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> the wrong VFO.  Obviously, a lot of us are either sleep-deprived or not=
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> familiar with the equipment we are using, or both.  Yes, I've done it.=20
> (Don't *think* I did this weekend, but...)=20
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> Question 1:  What tips are out there for avoiding this?  I think we cou=
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> Question 2:  Is it true that a couple of OO notices during a contest=20
> constitutes grounds for DQ?=20
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> Just curious.
> 73, Jim N9JF=20
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